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New Cardinal Scale website outlines company’s products
Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Co. launched a website dedicated to its weigh-in-motion highway systems. The website, at www.wimscales.com, features Cardinal Scale's product line, including quartz sensor-based in-motion scales for full highway speed weighing, slow-speed in-motion load-cell based scales, virtual weigh station… Keep Reading
NSSGA encourages House to pass water resources reform bill
NSSGA urged members of the U.S. House of Representative in an Oct. 21 letter to support the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA) and to vote for passage. According to NSSGA, it reminds congressional leaders in the… Keep Reading
Mack Trucks sponsoring highway safety program in 2014
Mack Trucks is sponsoring the Share the Road highway safety program for the 12th straight year next year. According to a press release, Share the Road utilizes professional truck drivers with exemplary safety records to educate people about safe following… Keep Reading
Smico, Symons brands have new name
Smico Manufacturing Co. and Symons Screens combined their names and are now called SmicoSymons Vibratory Screens. According to the company, the Smico product line will continue to focus on the industrial, food and minerals industries while the Symons product line… Keep Reading
Olney to step down as Volvo CE president
Pat Olney, president of Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), is leaving the company but will remain in his current position until the end of the year. According to Volvo CE, Olney is leaving to work with a non-competing U.S.-based engineering company.… Keep Reading
September construction climbs 13 percent
New construction starts in September advanced 13 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $556 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of McGraw Hill Financial. Nonresidential building bounced back after losing momentum in August, and the nonbuilding construction… Keep Reading
Sany America chairman resigns
Tim Frank resigned as chairman and CEO of Sany America Inc. According to a press release, Frank led Sany America to its first profitable quarter in the first quarter this year. He followed that with two more profitable quarters. During… Keep Reading
Case launches new dozer line
At a special media event at its Tomahawk, Wis., facility, Case Construction Equipment introduced a new M Series line of dozers. The new product line includes five models ranging from 92 to 214 net horsepower. The largest model, the 2050M,… Keep Reading
Kenworth of Pennsylvania opens service center
Kenworth of Pennsylvania opened a parts and service location at a renovated facility in York, Pa., that offers access to U.S. Highway 30 and U.S. Interstate 83. The renovated 4,500-sq.-ft. facility has two service bays for service, 2,500 sq. ft.… Keep Reading
